cna247 173 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 DISCLAIMER: I'm half Puerto Rican so I had to share this and this is wonderful news for public broadcasting. We already know you are. And why the need for this disclaimer in relation to the rest of the post? DISCLAIMER: I’m full American. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Holy bleep. I can't believe I'm saying this but... PBS is back in Puerto Rico! So yes, PBS is back in Puerto Rico. Wonderful news for a country still reeling from Hurricane Maria. DISCLAIMER: I'm half Puerto Rican so I had to share this and this is wonderful news for public broadcasting. This is also great news for Koreans and Mexicans visiting Puerto Rico, as they will also be able to enjoy the many offerings of these great PBS stations. Disclaimer: I'm American, Korean and Mexican. I enjoy Kimchi tacos...and long walks on the beach with my horse "Mr.Chu" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 We already know you are. And why the need for this disclaimer in relation to the rest of the post? DISCLAIMER: I’m full American. Because its a Puerto Rican station. Duh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cna247 173 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Because its a Puerto Rican station. Duh. Duh to you. So anytime you talk about Miami stations make sure you put a disclaimer saying your from Miami. Or anytime you talk about Gainesville stations don’t forget to put up a disclaimer that it’s the current market your living in. Or anytime you talk about Jacksonville stations put up a disclaimer saying that’s your secondary home market. Or hell, anytime you talk about any U.S. stations you should put a disclaimer your an American citizen. I could go on. An appropriate use of a “disclaimer” would be you work for that station. Duh. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Info Junkie 1285 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 TO GET BACK ON TOPIC, it looks like Asa Stackel will be possibly the new co-anchor on WNYT’s morning newscast, replacing Phil Bayly. Also it appears Jason Gough has also left, as I was on their “First Warning Weather” app today and saw that he was removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Duh to you. So anytime you talk about Miami stations make sure you put a disclaimer saying your from Miami. Or anytime you talk about Gainesville stations don’t forget to put up a disclaimer that it’s the current market your living in. Or anytime you talk about Jacksonville stations put up a disclaimer saying that’s your secondary home market. Or hell, anytime you talk about any U.S. stations you should put a disclaimer your an American citizen. I could go on. An appropriate use of a “disclaimer” would be you work for that station. Duh. Fair to say that then. And I respect that. Unrelated to that... WCJB's Tracy West has left the station after just a year and a half. She has been replaced by Haley Wade, who now anchors The Morning Edition and its news at noon. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Info Junkie 1285 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Another thing (if it hasn’t been posted), Chicago weather veteran Jerry Taft has retired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 427 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 TO GET BACK ON TOPIC, it looks like Asa Stackel will be possibly the new co-anchor on WNYT’s morning newscast, replacing Phil Bayly. Also it appears Jason Gough has also left, as I was on their “First Warning Weather” app today and saw that he was removed. Gough's last day was yesterday. This was reported a while back, he's going on a sabbatical to pursue other projects ranging from writing a book about assorted childhood abuses he survived to focusing on a Sunday morning show he created and produces, Wine About The Weather. The fun question is who will fill his shoes because his doing the late news was an insurance policy for if Bob Kovachick were to retire. They really have no weather bench anymore since their hires the last five years either a) left the market [WFXR's Jason Caterina and KKTV's Jordan Sherman] or b) are longtime vet retreads [Andy Gregorio was at WTEN forever and Neal Estano did THREE stints at WRGB with stops in-between at WJXT, then WBAL]. That morning move is a path of least resistance as who else do they really have? The person they wanted in such a role left the business and all apologies to the weekenders but they've kind've calcified into that role after so long. Asa's a caretaker of sorts. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1675 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 [quote name='NCFLMedia']Holy bleep. I can't believe I'm saying this but... PBS is back in Puerto Rico! For those who don't know, WMTJ Channel 40 was taken off air due to Hurricane Maria and went off-air forever. However, according to Wikipedia, on Wednesday, December 20th, WMTJ returned to the air via Liberty Puerto Rico (a cable provider there) and some of PBS' programming was seen on Channels 3 and 67 and in HD on channels 203 and 267. On Monday, January 2nd, just months after the supposed farewell to the station, WMTJ actually resumed regular over-the-air broadcasting operations via WSTE-DT (Teleisla) and can be seen on the same channel 40.1 from the transmitter located in Aguas Buenas. In other words, that transmitter is now home to both WSTE and WMTJ, even though they broadcast on different digital channels (WSTE is 7 and WMTJ is 16 but is moving to 15). So yes, PBS is back in Puerto Rico. Wonderful news for a country still reeling from Hurricane Maria. [B]DISCLAIMER[/B]: I'm half Puerto Rican so I had to share this and this is wonderful news for public broadcasting.[/QUOTE] That’s a good thing. With things get back to a somewhat sense of normalcy. David Begnaud has been posting statistics. I think most of the island has clean water and per this tweet they are back up to generating 85% of electricity but only 65% has service. [COLOR=#000000][MEDIA=twitter]954569328963104768[/MEDIA][/COLOR] Additionally, WMTJ likely needed to get back on the air ASAP so their license won’t be revoked (after 1 year it’s cancelled). Although I am guessing FCC is likely to bend the rules given the scope of the disaster. WMTJ and 70 other TV stations have been granted a special temporary authority, per a [URL='https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2018/db0119/DOC-348792A1.pdf']press release[/URL] that went out Friday January 19 at 11AM. I don’t know what the legalities may be with them broadcasting from WSTE in regards to them keeping their license in the long run - maybe @Thundershock MN knows. I’m putting out a wild guess that the transmissions on WSTE will not count unless they set up a channel sharing arrangement. Currently there appears to be no mention of a future channel sharing arrangement on the FCC website. You can search [URL='https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicAppSearch.html']here[/URL] (enter WSTE or WMTJ as calls) and see that there’s nothing regarding a future CSA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Armed Forces network shutdown... http://thehill.com/policy/defense/369949-military-television-network-off-the-air-due-to-government-shutdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Armed Forces network shutdown... http://thehill.com/policy/defense/369949-military-television-network-off-the-air-due-to-government-shutdown I've always been interested in the AFN operations... both TV and radio. Check it out, its pretty interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatSowislander 52 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Longtime WDJT anchor Michele McCormack announced on her personal FB page that she has left the station as of the 16th. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatSowislander 52 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Longtime WDJT anchor Michele McCormack announced on her personal FB page that she has left the station as of the 16th. https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/1/23/out-the-door-in-milwaukee Here's FTVLive's take. Amanda Porterfield will replace her as I saw on FB mentions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihEARDtHAT 8 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 KSWB FOX 5 San Diego debuts new studio. The new glass desk (very similar to the one used by CBS This Morning) provides a lot of under desk lighting and when the anchors and staff sit at the desk appear ghostly with this added light. http://www.kson.com/blogs/nick/kswbfox-5-san-diego-debut-new-news-set-and-redesigned-studio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Mike Rawlins of KRTV is making a huge step up to WNBC. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/krtv-chief-meteorologist-heads-to-wnbc/199669 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkolsen 1675 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Mike Rawlins of KRTV is making a huge step up to WNBC. http://www.adweek.com/tvspy/krtv-chief-meteorologist-heads-to-wnbc/199669 Steve Sosna has a similar step up. He was an EP and sometime on air meteorologist now in Philly. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaking News 802 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 At WGCL/CBS46 Anchor Ben Swann been suspended after he tries revive his Reality Check series online...... http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2018/01/26/exclusive-cbs46-anchor-ben-swann-taken-off-air-after-he-tries-to-revive-reality-check/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRAP-TV 145 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 At WGCL/CBS46 Anchor Ben Swann been suspended after he tries revive his Reality Check series online...... http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2018/01/26/exclusive-cbs46-anchor-ben-swann-taken-off-air-after-he-tries-to-revive-reality-check/ Surely there's a Sinclair station that will snatch him right up. Or FOXnews... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3442 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Florida wants to make Daylight Saving time year round...and move the counties in Central time over to Eastern like the rest of the state. http://www.wjhg.com/content/news/Bill-to-keep-Florida-on-Daylight-Saving-Time-all-year-moves-forward-470960303.html Panama City would be the only market to have consistency since it's already bisected by the time line; the easternmost counties are in Eastern already. It would get dicey with Tallahassee and Jacksonville since they border Georgia, and wreak havoc in Mobile-Pensacola since WEAR is based in Pensacola and virtually every one else is in Alabama. The result would be when Alabama falls back in the fall, Pensacola would be TWO HOURS ahead of Mobile...and that primetime would start at 9 instead of 8 in the Sunshine State when the rest of the country "falls back". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabbleship 427 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 WHDH's Christa Delkamp has left the station after 14 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1843 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Lindsay Czarniak is coming back to WRC-TV, at least for a week. She recently left ESPN (saddened about that) and is coming back to the station that helped her career off to stardom. She'll contribute to WRC-TV's Super Bowl coverage this upcoming week. She won't be on after that more likely due to WRC-TV reducing sports coverage since Carol Maloney no longer works there either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2018/01/25/her-espn-tenure-over-lindsay-czarniak-will-contribute-to-nbc-washingtons-super-bowl-coverage/?utm_term=.747cbab74221 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glimmer 238 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Lindsay Czarniak is coming back to WRC-TV, at least for a week. She recently left ESPN (saddened about that) and is coming back to the station that helped her career off to stardom. She'll contribute to WRC-TV's Super Bowl coverage this upcoming week. She won't be on after that more likely due to WRC-TV reducing sports coverage since Carol Maloney no longer works there either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2018/01/25/her-espn-tenure-over-lindsay-czarniak-will-contribute-to-nbc-washingtons-super-bowl-coverage/?utm_term=.747cbab74221 Wouldn't be surprised if this led to her heading to NBC Sports in the near future, with her being married to Craig Melvin and all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlnews2 557 Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 At WGCL/CBS46 Anchor Ben Swann been suspended after he tries revive his Reality Check series online...... http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2018/01/26/exclusive-cbs46-anchor-ben-swann-taken-off-air-after-he-tries-to-revive-reality-check/ hopefully they'll finally fire him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrschimpf 2051 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/1/23/out-the-door-in-milwaukee Here's FTVLive's take. Amanda Porterfield will replace her as I saw on FB mentions. They confirmed it today on their Facebook; totally bright idea as they got negative feedback about it, definitely. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbnews 344 Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 WHDH's Christa Delkamp has left the station after 14 years.Well, Boston Media Watch said she's hinted on Twitter about a return to TV. Hope she shows up on WCVB! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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